Abductor Of Chibok Girls Gets 15 Years Jail Term

The federal high court in Wawa military cantonment, New Bussa, Niger State has sentenced one boko haram member, Haruna Yahaya, to 15 years imprisonment for his role in the abduction of Chibok girls in 2014.

Thirty-five year old Yahaya, who claimed to be a trader from potiskum, yobe state, but resident in Damboa LGA, Borno state, confessed in his statement that he was forced to join the boko haram group and had participated in the attack and abduction of over 200 Chibok secondary school girls.

He equally confessed to have lost count of the number of people he killed in the many attacks he participated in

Despite being physically challenged, Yahaya narrated how he was trained to handle ak 47 rifle, confessing that his criminal activities spanned from 2015 to 2017 before he was nabbed.

The judge held that Yahaya's physically challenged condition cannot be used to attract sympathy from the court, he then ordered that he will serve the sentence in any prison chosen by the comptroller general of Nigerian prisons service.

Yahaya is part of the 20 persons convicted so far since the commencement of the second phase of the prosecution of over 1, 000 boko haram suspects

The court equally pledged to attend to the cases without compromise of procedures and rule of law.

Earlier, Yahaya's counsel Matthew egege had pleaded with the court to release the defendant, explaining that he was forced to join the sect and would have been killed if he did not.